GMT 11/08/2017 Hump day NSFW

392 Theodosius of Rome passes legislation prohibiting all pagan worship in the empire.

1226 Louis IX succeeds Louis VIII as king of France.

1576 The 17 provinces of the Netherlands form a federation to maintain peace.

1620 The King of Bohemia is defeated at the Battle of Prague.

1685 Fredrick William of Brandenburg issues the Edict of Potsdam, offering Huguenots refuge.

1793 The Louvre opens in Paris. But wasn't it already a Palace and it merely opens to the people?

1861 Charles Wilkes seizes Confederate commissioners John Slidell and James M. Mason from the British ship Trent.

1864 President Abraham Lincoln is re-elected in the first wartime election in the United States.

1887 Doc Holliday, who fought on the side of the Earp brothers during the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral 6 years earlier, dies of tuberculosis in Glenwood Springs, Colorado.

1889 Montana becomes the 41st state of the Union.

1900 Theodore Dresier's first novel Sister Carrie is published by Doubleday, but is recalled from stores shortly due to public sentiment.

1904 President Theodore Roosevelt is elected president of the United States. He had been vice president until the shooting death of President William McKinley.

1910 The Democrats prevail in congressional elections for the first time since 1894.

1923 Adolf Hitler attempts a coup in Munich, the "Beer Hall Putsch," and proclaims himself chancellor and Ludendorff dictator. .

1932 Franklin D. Roosevelt is elected 32nd president of the United States.

1938 Crystla Bird Fauset of Pennsylvania, becomes the first African-American woman to be elected to a state legislature.

1942 The United States and Great Britain invade Axis-occupied North Africa.

1960 John F. Kennedy is elected 35th president, defeating Republican candidate Richard Nixon in the closest election, by popular vote, since 1880.

1965 Vietnam War, Operation Hump: US 173rd Airborne Brigade Combat Team ambushed by over 1,200 Viet Cong in Bien Hoa Province. Nearby, in the Gang Toi Hills, a company of the Royal Australian Regiment also engaged Viet Cong forces.

1966 Republican Edward Brooke of Massachusetts becomes the first African American elected to the Senate in 85 years.

1977 Greek archaeologist Manolis Andronikos discovers what is believed to be the tomb of Philip II of Macedon at Vergina in northern Greece.

1983 Wilson B. Goode is elected as the first black mayor of the city of Philadelphia.

1987 A dozen people are killed and over 60 wounded when the IRA detonates a bomb during a Remembrance Day ceremony in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland, honoring those who had died in wars involving British forces.

2000 Dispute begins over US presidential election between George W. Bush and Al Gore; Supreme Court ruling on Dec. 12 results in a 271-266 electoral victory for Bush.

2004 More than 10,000 US troops and a few Iraqi army units besiege an insurgent stronghold at Fallujah.

2013 Super Typhoon Haiyan, one of the strongest storms ever recorded, slams into the Philippines, with sustained winds of 195 mpg (315 kph) and gusts up to 235 mph (380 kph); over 5,000 are killed (date is Nov 7 in US).


Born on November 8


1949 Bonnie Raitt, blues singer, songwriter, musician. Rolling Stone magazine included her on its lists of 100 Greatest Singers of All Time and 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time.



Quote of the day

"I am a soldier, I fight where I am told, and I win where I fight.” George Patton

Dirty joke of the day

What’s the difference between a tire and 365 used condoms?
One’s a Goodyear. The other’s a great year.